Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-326) and index.
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Framework: women, babies, and treatment -- Masquerade: clinical profile -- Everything gets in the way: resistance -- Don't call it therapy: reframing -- Anatomy of a postpartum depression therapist -- Holding environment -- Making a diagnosis -- Voice of depression -- Therapeutic models for women at risk -- Perfectly postpartum -- Tools: doing what works -- Phone call: initial assessment -- First things first -- Asking the right questions: screening -- Listening to symptoms: assessment -- Collaboration -- Sharing the session -- Medication: clinician's perspective -- Medication: client's perspective -- Alternative therapies -- Work: clinical challenges -- Scary thoughts -- Help-resistant complainer -- Good girl -- Breastfeeding to death -- Countertransference: when is yours mine? -- Sleeplessness -- Married state -- Bonding -- Suicidal thoughts -- Psychosis -- Motherself -- Prevention? -- Burnout, boundaries, and other pitfalls -- Healing -- Umbilical factor -- Bracelet -- Therapy exposed -- Finding the power to heal -- Recovery revealed -- Search for meaning -- Quintessential mother.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book provides a comprehensive look at effective therapy for postpartum depression. Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence-based research, and personal, straight-forward suggestions gathered from years of experience, this book brings the reader into the private world of therapy with the postpartum woman. Based on Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral theories, and on D.W. Winnicott's "good-enough mother" and the "holding environment" in particular, the book is written by a therapist who has specialized in the treatment of postpartum depression for over 20 years. Therapy and the Postpartum Woman will serve as a companion tool for clinicians and the women they treat."--Publisher's website.